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Originally Posted by odamizu

Color has many meanings, and black is not universally bad, but as far as marketing goes, I think these sites are reflect my parent's discomfort with black:

http://www.color-meanings.com/color-...e-colors-mean/

http://www.illuminantpartners.com/2011/01/17/color/

http://www.ehow.com/about_6658499_me...-culture_.html

I have heard that different cultures have different colors standing for different things. Like white is the color of purity in many western societies but orange is in some others like (I think) India. So when family planning organizations try to hand out some birth control items there people weren't using them because they were orange and sex is far from purity. Different words have the same problem. A German car co. named its car something (I can't recall the word) but in Japanese (or maybe Chinese) it had a meaning that was detrimental to sales.